Deadline: Not specified
Location: Tshikapa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
World Vision International is seeking to fill the role of Senior Programme Director.
The mission of World Vision International includes working with the poor and people who are oppressed as it promotes human transformation.
Responsibilities
- Direct and oversee grant implementation, ensuring that all strategic objectives are met through proper design, staffing, implementation and quality assurance
- Build and maintain relationships with host governments, donors, other donor-funded projects and stakeholders, local organisations, and partners
- Ensure appropriate project quality support for consortium members through purposeful leads
- Oversee that bottlenecks and challenges to project impact are addressed at various levels of stakeholders using forums such as technical working groups, donor/government-led coordination meetings, and meetings with consortium member project managers
- In collaboration with partners’ project managers, design and facilitate regular project learning events with consortium partners and other key stakeholders, ensuring that lessons of sound practice are documented and disseminated through project implementation and review
- Supervise a team of senior-level international and national staff with skills across a diverse set of technical areas
- Ensure proper technical capacity of staff to manage complex donor-funded projects
- Lead grant staff and short-term consultants
- Establish and maintain effective project reporting, evaluation, and communication systems
- Submit timely accurate and professional reports that meet donor requirements
- Ensure grant/project budget is managed within approved spending levels and ensure accurate and timely financial reports to donors and support office international programmes group staff (the core team)
- Ensure grant/project expenses are reasonable, allocated as per the assigned budget, prudent, and spent following donor rules and regulations to ensure low-risk audits
- Timely escalate grant management issues and openly resolve grant management issues quickly and fully
- Perform other duties as required
Requirements
- Ten years, minimum, of progressively responsible senior experience in international development as chief of party, deputy chief of party, or a related senior management experience
- Ten years, minimum, of experience managing development activities for USAID or similar donors, with three years, minimum, of experience working in/on fragile or post-conflict states (experience in the Democratic Republic of Congo strongly preferred)
- Experience managing sub-grants and contracts under grants for complex projects
- Experience in leading large and diverse teams
- Experience with large USAID grants
- Demonstrated experience in developing and managing alliances with the private sector (desirable)
- Familiarity with and commitment to addressing gender and social inclusion (GESI) in project sectors
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